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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
- Subject: Re: User authentication (was Re: secure netnews)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.021824.930@decuac.dec.com>
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 02:18:24 GMT
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- cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes:
-
- >If I give you an RSA key, that's all you need. I'm the only one in the world
- >who knows the two primes in N. That defines *me*.
-
- With the usual caveat that he has to meet you or something so you
- can give him the RSA key. Otherwise I can give him *my* RSA key and ask
- you nicely for yours and just unwrap and rewrap everything that goes past.
-
- mjr.
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